Downstream

feel you’re really at the end
of the Thames there, once
you’re around Wallasea. It
feels like Clacton and
Margate are still on the
Thames, although they are
not. Clacton to me is the
absolute limit of the Thames.’
Richard is, of course, happy
to negotiate with sensible
swimmers, such as the
organisers of the Great Pier
Swim which began in 2008.
But when he heard they